“THE PRESENT CYBER INFRASTRUCTURE AND GROWING DEPENDENCE ON CYBER TECHNOLOGY DEMANDS CYBERSECURITY TO BE A NATIONAL AND ECONOMIC SECURITY PRIORITY”

Abstract

The ever-expanding and increasing number of illegal and unacceptable cyber intrusions and instances are continuously posing a major threat to the present cybersecurity systems used by federal authorities and private sectors. As a result, Americas cyber space is constantly under attack. Efforts by The Department of Homeland Security that was created to maintain and resolve cyber irregularities while protecting networks and cyberdata has shown some failure to devise effective regulations to safeguard the cyber space. The increasing number of successful efforts by hackers, group of hackers, business competetors, organized crime groups, terrorirsts all around the world have infected and disabled computers to steal sensetive data followed by improper disclosures, privacy breaches, identity thefts and financial thefts. The United States Congress is now burdened with the task and responsibility to legislate cybersecurity measures designed to prevent the undesirable cyber attacks on the private as well as government sectors. Moreover, the fact that the recent attempts to determine the working of cybersecurity regulation i.e. The Cybersecurity Act of 2012, which is going through lot of debates and analysis to baseline security standards to address various cyber related issues has shown some seriousness on the government’s part to fame a completely satisfactory Cybersecurity Act to prevent damages to country’s assets and losing sensitive information.